Tue.Jul 31, 2018

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How Cloud-Based Accounting Software Can Benefit Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How Cloud-Based Accounting Software Can Benefit Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a business owner, you are all too aware of the many moving pieces it takes for a business to run smoothly. One area that business owners know is important is accounting and bookkeeping, although it’s often the last area they want to spend time on.

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7 Citizen Engagement Tips to Help Build Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities

Austin Startup

Image Description: Background image includes blue and green squares of varying sizes. The word “SOLUTIONS” is in the foreground in white capital letters. How to foster dynamic civic participation, ignite citizen co-creation, and leverage human-centered urban design Lessons learned in the 20-year history of Smart Cities are testaments to the truth that successful and sustainable Smart Cities cannot be built solely upon the technology mainframe.

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Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate

Version One Ventures

VC is an apprenticeship industry. When I joined Version One five years ago, I would have never guessed that I would be where I am today. So much of who I am today has to do with the fact that Boris spent a ton of time teaching and mentoring me, despite our different locations. From Day 1, he was dedicated to my personal and professional development.

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How Do Your Benefits Compare To The World’s Highest-Rated Consulting Agencies?

YoungUpstarts

by Jennifer Durrant, publisher of Sourced Media Books. In this competitive job market, some companies turn to generous benefits packages as a way to attract and retain valued employees. And, in many cases, it’s doing the job. In a recent survey of 2,000 U.S. workers, 88 percent of those surveyed would consider accepting a lower paying job with a generous benefits package over a high paying job that lacked things like vacation leave or a robust health benefits package.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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4 Ways to Ease the Stress of Owning a Business Vehicle

YFS Magazine

If you do a substantial amount of driving for your business, it may be time to purchase a company car or make your personal car suitable for business use.

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[Interview] Garrett Wright: Lead Crowdfunding Strategist At InventureX

YoungUpstarts

What happens when you dedicate your time and energy into perfecting the best crowdfunding efforts for your business? You get passionate people like Garrett Wright who has been utilizing his talents to help InventureX succeed in the industry. An expert marketer, author and success coach, Wright brings his experience and understanding to develop launches that make a big difference for his clients.

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Why HR Is The Foundation For A Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

Human resource management is a huge part of the success within a business because of the important role it plays in organisation and stability. Whether it’s hiring the best individual, creating the perfect working environment or collaboration with employees and improving their skills – HR are always there to build a bright future for the company.

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Different vs. More

VC Adventure

I’ve had this conversation with a number of founders recently and thought I’d post something here about it in the hopes that others see it/resonate with it as well. In the world of startups we often talk about “more”. More funding. More sales. More efficiency. More. More. More. And, of course, there are plenty of times when “more” is appropriate. When something is working, and working efficiently, doing more of it is often the right call.

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Four Ways To Go Beyond Info Gathering And Build Real Rapport With Your Prospects 

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Signorelli, author of “ Inbound Selling: How to Change the Way You Sell to Match How People Buy “ If you’ve been a salesperson for a while, there’s a good chance you swear by the “BANT” approach. Asking questions around Budget, Authority, Needs, and Timeline has long been the framework for qualifying prospects.

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Designing For Underrepresented Technologists First

Feld Thoughts

I’ve written several times about leveling the playing field for women in tech, including our own actions at the Foundry Group. I’m always keeping my ear to the ground for how to do this better. Recently, I was connected to Kate Catlin, the Founder of Find My Flock , by my partner Jason. From the outside, it looks like Find My Flock is a tech job board that is enthusiastically open to all.

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So, I've Left the Otto Group

Babbling VC

I'm not sure this is news to anyone who knows me well but I haven't really publicized it much. Contractually, today is my last day at the Otto Group. We parted on good terms, and there is no real juicy story to tell. We simply no longer saw eye to eye on strategy and how things were going to be run. After over six years, I decided it was time to move on.

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Creating a true team atmosphere in business

Jeff Hilimire

At Dragon Army , we think of our company as a team. How? Glad you asked :). Our “golden rule” Value is Team First , we call our dragons ‘team members’ instead of resources, and we run our company through a version of The Great Game of Business. Oh, and we take an annual cruise*. It’s not easy to create a true sense of being on a team within a business, and we’re continuously working to get closer to that state.

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So, I've Left the Otto Group

Babbling VC

I'm not sure this is news to anyone who knows me well but I haven't really publicized it much. Contractually, today is my last day at the Otto Group. We parted on good terms, and there is no real juicy story to tell. We simply no longer saw eye to eye on strategy and how things were going to be run. After over six years, I decided it was time to move on.

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Numbers You Should Have in Mind as HR

Transformify

While recruiting new employees is often about finding the right person or people for the job, there are also important numbers you should know. There are various metrics that you should be keeping track of to ensure that your recruitment methods are working. With that in mind, take a closer look at a few hiring metrics that you should be tracking at your company.

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